€35.6m spent since 2020 and we still won’t have contactless payments until 2028. This is tech many other countries already use, yet Dublin gets it first and Cork has no timeline. Massive spend, zero delivery, painfully slow by Irish standards.
Business_Version1676 on
By 2030 when they finally roll out their Dublin bus sum up machines, we will already have our Rothschild and Co digital wallet chip implanted in our wrist and this will be outdated tech
im_on_the_case on
ASTOUNDING article, all two feckin sentences of it. Top notch journalism.
DyslexicAndrew on
I genuinely think people don’t understand the level and complexity that has to go into something like this. While yes it is frustrating for people outside Dublin to have no timeline for contactless payment, whipping up a story about 35m being spent is a bit silly in my opinion. The piece doesn’t say what the money was spent on, it just sounds like people who don’t really know what happens behind the scenes are just whipping people into a frenzy. The NTA’s budget for contactless payment over the next few years is 2.7 billion so that the systems and validators can be upgraded and repaired as the tech progresses and is rolled out around the entire country.
NocturneFogg on
By the time this is launched we may be using more apps for payment anyway . There is a big EU and ECB push to have alternatives to Mastercard and Visa on in place due to it being a duopoly of US companies controlling way too much of the payment market.
No doubt it won’t be, but you’d hope they’re planning in future proof terminals that can be software upgraded.
2028 is ludicrously late to launch this.
They also seem to live in a sort of la la land where they imagine Ireland is a laggard on these techs. It has one of the highest uptakes of contactless and particularly mobile / watch payments in the EU and in the world and basically 100% penetration of contactless cards. They’re running about 15-20 years behind the public and normal retailers on this.
They expect 2029 before the whole system is covered btw. I wouldn’t be expecting to be tapping in Cork and Limerick until the 2030s!!
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€35.6m spent since 2020 and we still won’t have contactless payments until 2028. This is tech many other countries already use, yet Dublin gets it first and Cork has no timeline. Massive spend, zero delivery, painfully slow by Irish standards.
By 2030 when they finally roll out their Dublin bus sum up machines, we will already have our Rothschild and Co digital wallet chip implanted in our wrist and this will be outdated tech
ASTOUNDING article, all two feckin sentences of it. Top notch journalism.
I genuinely think people don’t understand the level and complexity that has to go into something like this. While yes it is frustrating for people outside Dublin to have no timeline for contactless payment, whipping up a story about 35m being spent is a bit silly in my opinion. The piece doesn’t say what the money was spent on, it just sounds like people who don’t really know what happens behind the scenes are just whipping people into a frenzy. The NTA’s budget for contactless payment over the next few years is 2.7 billion so that the systems and validators can be upgraded and repaired as the tech progresses and is rolled out around the entire country.
By the time this is launched we may be using more apps for payment anyway . There is a big EU and ECB push to have alternatives to Mastercard and Visa on in place due to it being a duopoly of US companies controlling way too much of the payment market.
No doubt it won’t be, but you’d hope they’re planning in future proof terminals that can be software upgraded.
2028 is ludicrously late to launch this.
They also seem to live in a sort of la la land where they imagine Ireland is a laggard on these techs. It has one of the highest uptakes of contactless and particularly mobile / watch payments in the EU and in the world and basically 100% penetration of contactless cards. They’re running about 15-20 years behind the public and normal retailers on this.
They expect 2029 before the whole system is covered btw. I wouldn’t be expecting to be tapping in Cork and Limerick until the 2030s!!